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* 1721 Prizren, building of the Mosque of {{Lang-sq|Terzive}} {{Lang-sr|Terzijski}} (Tailors Mosque) <ref>http://www.komuna-prizreni.org/?page=1,162</ref><ref>http://kk.rks-gov.net/prizren/City-guide/Culture.aspx?lang=sr-Latn-CS</ref>The is a mosque in Tirana that was known with that name and was built in 1775<ref>http://www.xhamiakokonozit.com/html/history.html</ref>
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2nd century:After Roman conquest of Illyria at 168 BC, Ulpiana or Justiniana Secunda is founded by Romans and settled by Roman legionaries.The region already was inhabited by Illyrians (the Dardanians themselves may have been Thracians mixed with Illyrians), Celts, Thracians.The ethnic origin of the legionnaires is unknown.Romans colonized and founded several cities in the region
In the 150 AD after Roman conquest, Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer from Alexandria drafts a map. This map shows the city of Albanopolis (located Northeast of Durrës). Ptolemy also mentions the Illyrian tribe named Albanoi, who lived around this city.Possible connection to Albanians.This however was not in the region of Kosovo but in modern north Albania.
1081, Albania and Albanians mentioned, for the first time in a historical record, by Byzantine historian Michael Attaliates.It is disputed, however, whether that refers to Albanians in an ethnic sense.
1352 the Ottoman Turks conducted their first incursion into Thrace subduing it completely within a matter of two decades and occupying it for five centuries.
1360 Prizren became a part of the domain of the House of Mrnjavčević under Serbian King Vukašin in the 1360s.
1371 Lazar Hrebeljanovic, Prince (1371–1389), assumes royal name Stefan Pomoravlje (river Morava basin)
1371 Vuk Brankovic (ca. 1371 - 1397) Kosovo
1371 Dissolution of the House of Nemanjić and the Serbian Empire, which fragments into a conglomeration of principalities. Kosovo becomes the hereditary land of the House of Branković.
1371 Following the Battle of Maritsa in 1371, and the deaths of Vukašin and Uglješa, the Ohrid Archbishopric began to lose its gains.
1372 : Prizren The House of Branković under Vuk Branković then became the City's owners, under vassalage to the House of Lazarević that managed to reunite the former Serb Lands. Lazarevićs' founder, hero Prince Lazar was educated in Prizren. The dynasty would switch allegiances to the Ottoman Empire before returning under the Serbian Despot Stefan Lazarević, son of Lazar.
1372 Balšić took Prizren
1372 With the final disintegration of the Serbian Empire, Zeta's ruler Đurađ I of the House of Balšić dynasty took the City with the surroundings in 1372. Zeta (state)
1375 In 1375 the Serb Patriarch was forced to send a delegation to Constantinopole to appeal for the lifting of the schism from the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchy that was established during the time of Dushan. In the last decade of the 14th century, Macedonia was already under Ottoman rule,
1387 The important city of Thessaloniki was captured from the Venetians in 1387
1389 Stefan Lazarevic, Prince (1389–1402), assumes title Despot Pomoravlje (river Morava basin)
1389 The Ottoman Turks defeated the Serbian Empire (Yugoslavia) at the battle of Kosovo where Serbian independence is lost for the next five hundred years. The Slavs of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Yugoslavia) are slowly converted to Islam (Muslim) during this period.
1389 Albanian ruler of Durrës invites Ottoman forces to intervene against a rival.
1389 Battle of Kosovo, Ottoman forces defeated a coalition of Serbs, Albanians, and Bosnians led by the Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović. Soon after parts of Serbia accepted Turkish vassalage and Lazar's daughter was married to the Sultan to seal peace.
1389 Having this in mind as well as the constant danger from the Turks, Djuradj II Balsic maintained good family ties with Serbian rulers of the time, Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic. His mother, Milica Mrnjavcevic, was a sister of Prince Vukasin of Serbia, and he married Jelena who was a daughter of Prince Lazar of Serbia. In order to help Prince Lazar to defend his state from Turkish invasion, Djuradj II sent his troops with Ban Tvrtko's forces (with whom he had a dispute over Kotor) to meet the Turkish army at Kosovo Polje. Despite Sultan Murat death, the orthodox coalition suffered a defeat in the epic Battle of Kosovo (1389).
1389 in a bloody battle at Kosovo polje on June 15, 1389, Prince Lazar, the Turkish Sultan Murad, and thousands of warriors on both sides were killed. In later historical tradition, this battle would be remembered as the decisive defeat of the Serbs, the end of the Serbian state.
1389 the Turkish victory at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 effectively marked the end of Serbian power in the region, paving the way for Ottoman expansion into Europe.
1392 Vuk Brankovic, unjustly remembered in epic tradition as a traitor who slipped away from the battle field, resisted them until 1392, when he was forced to become their vassal. The Turks took Brankovic's lands and gave them to a more loyal vassal, Prince Stefan Lazarevic, son of Prince Lazar thereby creating a rift between their heirs
1396 The Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, widely regarded as the last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages, failed to stop the advance of the victorious Ottomans.
1397 Widow Mara Brankovic with sons (1397–1412) Kosovo
1397 The Turks quickly recovered and imposed their own rule over Lazar's successors, and after 1392 over Vuk Brankovic, who had become a leading figure until the Turks overthrew him and imprisoned him in .
1400-1499
1402 Stefan Lazarevic (1402–1427) Despots of restored Serbia
1402 Stefan Lazarevic, Prince (1389–1402), assumes title Despot Pomoravlje (river Morava basin) END
1402 He became the Despot of Serbia in 1402 after the Ottoman state temporarily collapsed following Timur's invasion of Anatolia with the Battle of Ankara, and in Stefan Lazarević
1402 In the feud between Turkish vassal Djuradj Brankovic and his uncle Stevan Lazarevic (son of Prince Lazar) who later received the title of Byzantine despot, Djuradj II sided with Stevan. Due to Djuradj's support, Stevan defeated Turkish forces led by Djuradj Brankovic in the battle of Gracanica on Kosovo field (21 June 1402) (J. Jovanovic, Stvaranje Crnogorske Drzave i Razvoj Crnogorske Nacionalnosti, Obod, Cetinje 1947, p. 36).
1402 Part of the Ottoman territories in the Balkans (such as Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Kosovo) were temporarily lost after 1402.
1402 Tamerlane invaded Anatolia with the Battle of Ankara in 1402,
1402 when chaos reigned in the Ottoman Empire following the defeat of Sultan Bayezid I in 1402 by the Mongol warlord Timur (Tamerlane). Although Mehmed Çelebi was confirmed as sultan by Tamerlane, his brothers refused to recognize his authority. Ottoman Interregnum The capture of Bayezid I threw the Turks into disorder. The state fell into a civil war which lasted from 1402 to 1413, as Bayezid's sons fought over succession. It ended when Mehmed I emerged as the sultan and restored Ottoman power, bringing an end to the Interregnum. Ottoman Empire
1406 Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg (6 May 1405 – 17 January 1468) was born Skanderbeg
1408, After John's death in 1408, the Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus gave Thessalonica under the rule of his son Despot Andronicus who was ailing and weakling and could do nothing to strengthen the main city in Macedonia - second of importance in all the empire. Ohrid Archbishopric. In their conquests, they showed tolerance towards the Christian faith
1409 Stefan Ostoja (1409–1418), second reign
1409 Stefan Tvrtko II Tvrtkovic Stephen Ostoja (restored) (1409–1418) House of Kotromanić
1412 After the battle of Angora in 1402, Prince Stefan took advantage of the chaos in the Ottoman state. In Constantinople he received the title of despot, and upon returning home, having defeated Brankovic's relatives he took control over the lands of his father. Despite frequent internal conflicts and his vassal obligations to the Turks and Hungarians, despot Stefan revived and economically consolidated the Serbian state, the center of which was gradually moving northward. Under his rule Novo Brdo in Kosovo became the economic center of Serbia where in he issued a Law of Mines in 1412
1412 Widow Mara Brankovic with sons (1397–1412) Kosovo
1412 Mosque of Suziut # 1412-1413
1412 Name is Suziut Rennovated in 1995 Built in (1412/1413) Questionable if this is corrent.
1413 After the Ottoman Interregnum, when Mehmed stood as victor in 1413, he crowned himself sultan in Edirne.
1413 Musa Çelebi was killed 5 July 1413 in Bulgaria.
1413 The Interregnum lasted until 1413, when Mehmed Çelebi emerged as victor in the strife, crowned himself sultan, and restored the empire. Ottoman Interregnum
1415 possible submission of kastriot of Albania
1415, Wallachia accepted the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire; this lasted until the 19th century, albeit with brief periods of Russian occupation between 1768 and 1854 Walachia
1417, Ottoman forces captured Vlora and then Gjirokastra. But their grip on the country was weak, and Albania had not yet given up
1422 the new Turkish sultan Murad II laid a long and heavy siege to Thessalonica which at the end left its inhabitants without any hope for salvation. Next summer Despot Andronicus and the municipality of Thessalonica decided to commit the government of the town to the Venitians hoping that they Would help against the merciless foes. But the Venitians too acted inconsistently and hesitatingly - they could neither defense the town effectively nor rule it properly and gradually they antagonized the inhabitants of Thessalonica.
1422, began the Siege of Thessalonika and Constantinople.Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430) Siege of Thessalonika (1422)
1427 Djuradj Brankovic (1427–1456) Despots of restored Serbia
1430 but were later recovered by Murad II between the 1430s and 1450s.
1430 the sultan's troops who had laid a passive siege till now started a direct assault against the town to capture it. Three days later Thessalonica was taken by the Turks and thus the whole Macedonia was conquered.
1439 the Ottomans captured Smederevo, the Branković's capital. Đurađ Branković
1443, the Ottoman army was defeated, at the Serbian town of Niš, by a crusade under a multi-national leadership which included the Hungarian hero János Hunyadi. At this point Skanderbeg, an Albanian nobleman who had been trained as a soldier in the Ottoman army, raised a rebellion from his family seat at Kruja.
1455 The Holy Archangels church, however, due to its ill-fated destiny, was destroyed when Prizren fell under Turkish domination in 1455
1455 The Ottomans occupied Prizren on June 21, 1455, and that is when the oriental urban development of Prizren began
1455 Kosovo was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1455 to 1912, at first as part of the eyalet of Rumelia, and from 1864 as a separate province (vilayet).
1455, it was finally and fully conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
1456 Lazar Brankovic (1456–1458) Despots of restored Serbia
1456 Siege of Belgrade, 1456
1458 Stefan Brankovic and Helen Palaiologos, Regency (1458–1459) Despots of restored Serbia
1459 Stefan Tomasevic (1459) Despots of restored Serbia
1459 Serbia proper was annexed by the Ottoman Empire in 1459.
1459 Serbia was beaten by the Turks,
1471 a dependent Serbian state was established by the Hungarians mostly on the territory of Vojvodina and Syrmia.
1496 the small Serbian territories of Bosnia and Montenegro were lost by 1496
1500-1599
1500 Xhamia “Maksut Pasha” shek.XVI/XVII in the region of Prizren built in 1500
1543 Mosque of Myderis Ali Efendisë (Xh. Ali Hoxha) 1543-1581 suffered from fire 1975
1545 Mosque of Mehmet Pasha (Bajrakli) 1545 1573/1574
1549 Bajrakli (Mehmed-Pašina) Mosque - was built in 1549.
1561 The Bajrakli Gazi Mehmet Pasha's mosque is the oldest monument of Islamic art in Prizren. The inscription above the entrance states it was built in 1561. This mosque has a square base and numerous windows, while the main veneration niche (mihrab) and the pulpit (mimber) are made of marble.
1721 Prizren, building of the Mosque of Template:Lang-sqTemplate:Lang-sr (Tailors Mosque) The is a mosque in Tirana that was known with that name and was built in 1775
1912 - The Balkan Wars: the Kingdom of Serbia gains control of the larger part of Kosovo from the Turks (the smaller section going to Kingdom of Montenegro), recognised by 1913 Treaty of London. Within Serbia, the regions of the former vilayet are split into three minor subunits with only one part baring the name of Kosovo.
1918: Serbia's absorption of Montenegro followed by its unification with the State of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to form the first incarnation of Yugoslavia takes the territories of Kosovo with it into the new entity (ratified in various treaties throughout 1919 and 1920).
1944: The Democratic Federal Yugoslavia is created with the national boundary with Albania precisely as it had been prior to World War II.
1946: Kosovo as a political unit resurfaces for the first time since 1912. Now named the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, the new entity exists as an autonomous region within the Socialist Republic of Serbia but it only occupies a fraction of the territory which had been Kosovo prior to 1912: whilst a part of the former vilayet remained within Central Serbia, the other lands were placed in the newly created Yugoslav republics of Monenegro and Macedonia (both outside of and equal partners to Serbia).
1963: As a result of the new constitution, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is announced. Kosovo sees an increase in the level of self-rule.
1971: A higher level of autonomy is devolved to Kosovo's authorities.
1974: Kosovo becomes the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, now arguably equal to the republics of Yugoslavia as Serbia no longer has direct authority over Kosovo.
1987 (April 24): As animosity between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo had deepened during the 1980s, Slobodan Milošević was sent to address a crowd of Serbs in Kosovo Polje.
1990: Kosovo becomes part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. Changes to the constitution by Serbia's parliament revert Kosovo back to its pre-1974 status; separare problems among the Yugoslav republics predating this event means that the country was now rump with no effective central authority to outlaw these measures.
22 September 1991: The Republic of Kosova is proclaimed, however only Albania recognises it.
1996-1999: Clashes between the KLA and the security forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia intensify to become a full-scale war.
8 October 2008: The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Serbian proposal with 77 votes in favour, 6 votes against and 74 abstentions.
21 January 2009: The Kosovo Security Forces is formed, a 2,500 strong NATO trained lightly armoured Security Force.
21 April 2009: The ICJ announced that 35 member states of the United Nations had filed written statements within the time-limit fixed by the court (17 April 2009) on the question of the legality of Kosovo's UDI.
22 July 2010: International Court of Justice votes 10-4 in a non-binding advisory opinion that Kosovo's declaration of indepenence did not violate international law.
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